Sweeping Up Trash in a Wasteland World

Zhu Ning, who was leading the charge against zombies in the apocalypse, transmigrated, this time into a wasteland world. Eighty percent of this world’s land was polluted. Humanity was divided into five ranks, and she became a fifth-rank citizen, the lowest of them all: an unlucky defective. With nothing to her name, Zhu Ning had no choice but to take a job as a cleaner, picking up trash. She’d heard that collecting trash in the wasteland paid well and was easy work, practically a dream job. But… why was this trash-collecting job nothing like she’d imagined? On the vanished Line One, she ran into a fish-man with a fish’s head and a briefcase. At a trendy hot pot restaurant, the restaurant ate people! In a haunted house, the furniture moved in the middle of the night and hunted down its owner. Even the aquarium, which should have been warm and soothing in theory, was full of trouble: mermaids who forcibly demanded that people reproduce, bloodsucking mechanical jellyfish, and unknown transparent creatures. She walked into a dentist’s office, reached out, and suddenly teeth began raining from the sky. … That wasn’t all. The cleaning company seemed to be hiding a huge secret. Artificial intelligence was suspected to be the mastermind. The pharmaceutical company looked thoroughly corrupt! For no apparent reason, Zhu Ning got caught up in the conflict, and one wrong step could easily cost her life. In the wasteland, everyone had eight hundred schemes up their sleeves. Zhu Ning: Is heaven messing with me? Reader’s Guide: 1. A slightly cyberpunk-flavored, instance-based story, with the instances tied together. The world is divided between cyberpunk society within the walls and wasteland beyond them. The early story takes place inside the walls, and the later story outside. 2. The polluted areas contain a tiny bit of horror, just mildly scary. 3. The heroine is the strongest! 4. The whole story is set in an entirely fictional world. Please don’t read it as a reflection of reality. Please add my upcoming novel, I Really Don’t Want to Inherit a Luxury Villa One day, she suddenly received a phone call. A wealthy aunt she was distantly related to had left her a luxurious mansion before she died. She was the sole heir. Could something this good really happen? She packed her bags that very day and headed for the countryside. Sure enough, it was a luxurious mansion, like a castle. It just looked a little spooky. Being poor was scarier than ghosts. So what if the mansion was creepy? Once she moved in, it would be a place for the living! On her first day there, blood-red water dripped from the bathroom. On her second day, a woman sobbed inside the wall in the middle of the night. On her third day, a deathly pale face pressed right up against hers. Damn it, the house was haunted! She was afraid she’d die young. She fled in the middle of the night, running all the way back to her shabby rental. After finally catching her breath, she opened the bathroom door. She froze. The creepy mansion had followed her! She resigned herself to going back into the haunted mansion, where she came face-to-face with “their” list of last wishes. The creatures here were very polite, eagerly offering her their inheritances. They were practically the friendliest neighbors in the universe, though they did cause her a tiny bit of trouble. She invited a friend over and said, “Sorry, there are quite a few people in my family, but don’t worry, they’re all easy to get along with.” Her friend trembled. “…Is it possible, and I’m just putting this out there, I might be wrong, so just hear me out, but have you been haunted?!” Theme: Persevere and strive for self-improvement